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Event Date | Tue Mar 5 EST - Thu Mar 7 EST (9 months ago) |
Location |
Embassy Suites Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park Hotel
267 Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313, United States |
Region | Americas |
This premier marcus evans conference will provide attendees with lessons learned from recent storms, wildfires, and incidents to more safely, efficiently, and effectively improve outage response and emergency management planning, preparation, and execution. Attendees with hear from experienced utility executives and leaders on streamlining outage and crisis communications, maximizing drills and exercises, utilizing post incident analysis, ensuring effective resource management, and leveraging grid hardening strategies and advanced tools and analytics to prevent outages and mitigate their effects. Finally, the conference will cover key strategies to prepare for the many threats and challenges to today’s grid, including climate change, cyber and physical threats, costs and benefits to undergrounding, preventative de-energizing (Public Safety Power Shutoffs), and more!
2024 Speakers
Antoinette Benson
Program Manager, Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Greg Eddy
Lead Program Manager, Emergency Planning, National Grid
Alisha Khan
Senior Manager, Emergency Management and Business Continuity, Hydro One
Nora Yotsov
Director, Emergency Mangement, Pacificorp
Matthew Khaled
Manager, Emergency Preparedness, PSEG
Joe Weathersby
North East Division Manager, T&D, Arizona Public Service
Liz Pratt
Manger, External Communications and Media Relations, PPL
Sandy Buzzard
Product Manager, Duke Energy
David Wasson
Senior Manager, Regional Distribution Operations, Entergy
Gareth Stamp
Senior Manager, PSPS Electric Program Management, PG&E
Valerie Dammann
Manager, Emergency Preparedness, UAS Program Manager, ComEd
Stephen Parenteau
Manager, Emergency Planning, Rhode Island Energy
Mona Freels
Emergency Services Manager, SDG&E
Phil Kanagy
GM, Aviation Services, Tennessee Valley Authority
Rosie Ybarra
Emergency Management and Business Continuity Professional, Former CPS Energy
Tonya Ngotel
Manager, Emergency Preparedness, Omaha Public Power District
Michael McCallan
Business Development and Consulting, Storm Services LLC
2024 Sponsors
• MTV Solutions
• Storm Services
• KNX
• Data Capable
• Macro